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Arthur Fellig (WeeGee): Elizabeth Taylor 1950.
With his background as a dark-room technician, Wee Gee was well versed in the ‘post-production’
aspects of photography, and in the early 1950s produced many distorted and montaged images of
famous stars like Liz Taylor and Marilyn Monroe, remarking that his distorted images were meta-
phors for the kind of distortions involved in celebrity. https://www.journals.uchicago.edu/doi/abs/10.1086/673107? mobileUi=0&journalCode=amart
In his dark-room, Arthur Fellig plays with montage, and distortion - much as we might play with imagery in Photoshop:
